You shower of workshy layabouts

Gavin Gilbert
Gavin Gilbert Posts: 4,019
edited January 2009 in Commuting chat
:lol:

I only saw 10 other cyclists between Ealing Common and Tower Hill this morning....

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  • ChrisLS
    ChrisLS Posts: 2,749
    ...I was pedalling at 7am, out here in the sticks...
    ...all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...
  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    On holiday.

    Have been out for a couple of leesure rides, but made a concious decision to try and stay off the bike for the Xmas period.
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Yep, one other roadie going in my direction along Embankment. None in the other direction.
    FCN 2-4.

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    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • Mickey Eye
    Mickey Eye Posts: 590
    Only saw 4 other bikes in the centre of Oslo this morning. It was -8 but no ice, no excuse.
  • prj45
    prj45 Posts: 2,208
    Mickey Eye wrote:
    It was -8 but no ice, no excuse.

    I can't work that out, if it's -8 in London even the ice has got ice on it.
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  • Mickey Eye
    Mickey Eye Posts: 590
    It's really dry here right now and it hasn't snowed for ages, there is plenty of frost but it's not really that slippery. Eventually the temperature will get up a bit and it'll snow, at which point I'll have to put on spiked tires.
  • the_hundredth_idiot
    the_hundredth_idiot Posts: 813
    I thought the same this morning - barely another cyclist on my route (and, of course, I did the decent thing by scalping the ones I did see :lol: ). And, even better, very few of those nasty metal boxes either.

    The bike was just gliding along after I spent a half-hour over Xmas tinkering with the rear derailleur (after the bike shop seemingly spent a nano-second adjusting it so that it would fall into the gap between the cassette and the wheel every time I changed into lowest gear - took me a few days to spot that, of course 8) ).
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  • davidmiller
    davidmiller Posts: 320
    ChrisLS wrote:
    ...I was pedalling at 7am, out here in the sticks...


    +1 and saw........not a single other cyclist on my 13 mile commute!!!!

    At least there were n't many cars around either.

    David
  • phil_ss1
    phil_ss1 Posts: 194
    Guilty as charged m'Lord!

    Saw NO cyclists on my drive in this morning.

    Wanted to use my bike but the rear calliper's knackered. Boo!

    After all that stripping, cleaning and new rear mech/chain/cassette it received over Xmas.

    Could have ran in, if I could have been @rsed to!

    P
  • ris
    ris Posts: 392
    happy to hold my hand up to being girlysaurus and taking extra holiday.

    if i could stretch it out until the weather warms up that would be ideal.
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    ris wrote:
    happy to hold my hand up to being girlysaurus and taking extra holiday.

    if i could stretch it out until the weather warms up that would be ideal.

    I hold my hand up to being a lazy bastard as well :lol:

    I think Monday's going to be a hell of a shock to the system, still I've consumed enough calories and fluids in the last week for at least a months worth of commuting
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

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  • tardington
    tardington Posts: 1,379
    I have had a short go on my bike, which has new tyres, bar tape and lights on!

    I rode it home from the LBS and drank a lot of wine.
  • mountain-nic
    mountain-nic Posts: 22
    I only saw two other nutters riding up Rhiwbina hill on their MTB's early this monring and they were both behind me by the time we got to the top!

    Still nice to be out in the freezing cold! 8)
  • Totalnewbie
    Totalnewbie Posts: 932
    My workplace was closed yesterday in a rare display of goodwill, so there wasn't much point in me cycling down and banging on the door: 'Let me in!'
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Totalnewbie wrote:
    My workplace was closed yesterday in a rare display of goodwill, so there wasn't much point in me cycling down and banging on the door: 'Let me in!'

    Lame excuse you could have cycled there turned around and gone home again, MTFU :lol:
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    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
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